Adjusting the lens

Adjusting the lens: community and collaborative video in Mexico

by Schiwy, Freya Wammack Weber, Byrt

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"Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical, transformative, resistant, and constitutive processes offscreen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media."--Page 4 de la couverture.

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  • Full title :Adjusting the lens : community and collaborative video in Mexico / edited by Freya Schiwy and Byrt Wammack Weber.

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"Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical, transformative, resistant, and constitutive processes offscreen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media."--Page 4 de la couverture.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:[2017].

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The Physical Object

  • Description:vii, 264 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780822964469, 0822964465
  • oclc:on1021096679
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.I49
  • Dewey Decimal:791.450972

Table of Contents

(Re)imagining diaspora: two decades of video with a Mayan accent / Byrt Wammack Weber -- Geographies, Diasporas, and Communities Revisited / Elias Baran Levin Rojo ; translated by Byrt Wammack Weber and Freya Schiwy -- Arroz con leche: Audiovisual Poetry and the Politics of Everyday Life / Ana Rosa Duarte Duarte ; translated by Byrt Wammack Weber -- Shaping the taraspanglish diaspora / Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado -- Patron Saint Fiesta Videos: Mediatization and transnationalization between the Sierra Mixe and California / Ingrid Kummels -- Romper el cerco: An Ethnography of Transnational Collaborative Film / Livia K. Stone -- The Open Invitation: Some Notes on Video Activism and the Politics of Affect / Freya Schiwy.

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Subjects

Cinéma -- Histoire et critique Criticism, interpretation, etc Films autochtones -- Histoire et critiq… Films autochtones -- Mexique Indigenous films Indigenous films -- History and critici… Indigenous films -- Mexico Mexico

Writers

Schiwy, Freya Wammack Weber, Byrt

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